They have a reputation for innovation within their industry. They should be seeking out the sneezers and evangelists within the Social Networking space (and let us not forget that social networking sites are incredibly popular web destinations for all age brackets in Aus/NZ - see below) and engaging in conversation with them. To not do so is to miss a phenomenal first-mover opportunity that will go to one of their competitors if they are not careful.
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. You can even subscribe by email! Thanks for visiting!Anne Bartlett-Bragg recently ran a fabulous post on how those who would like to learn are being hampered by 20th century technology.
Meet Charlene is a fabulous set of slides by Janet Clarey that [...]
My fellow Adelaidian — she’s also a septic but we forgive her for that — Kerry raises a really good point about how presenters at education conferences around the topic of IT consider it highly rude if you blog or tweet during their pontification.
This is despite the much-spoken-of desire and "talkfests" being about [...]
Last night I and Lindy McKeown presented at the CPA Congress here in Australia.
But rather than fly to Melbourne, Sydney or the Gold Coast we presented in-world, at a venue built especially for the event.
To say they (the CPA organisers) were nervous would be a MASSIVE understatement! I could see their avatars shaking from the [...]
I never realised how prevalent domestic violence against men is.
We all know stories of male-initiated violence against women, perhaps we even know the perpetrators or victims themselves, but violence against men? Being beaten up by your girlfriend or wife is certainly not something that the average Aussie bloke would own up to, I would [...]
My co-supervisor on my PhD, Dr Denise Wood, has just featured on page one of the UniSA newsletter with news of her Second Life research.
Says the article,
UniSA joins elite US institutions such as Harvard and Duke Universities and Australia’s University of Queensland, in its foray into new ways of teaching and learning in the 21st [...]
Through the selection of participants for the workshop we will strive to cover a broad range of themes, including digital art and aesthetics, cultural heritage, civic communication, digital urban communities, hyper local journalism, etc.
by Lee Hopkins on August 15, 2008 · 6 comments
in PR, Second Life, Second Life & 3D virtual worlds, academic research, blogging, marketing, micro-blogging, podcasting, public speaking, videoblog
This has been a-mullin’ and a-musin’ around in what some laughably call my brain for a little while now.
My friend and colleague-in-arms Trevor Cook wrote an op-ed piece for the ABC’s ‘Unleashed’ site about the seeming death of social media in Australia. Robert X. Cringely argued that Social Media is just CB Radio [...]